Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Business (eBook)

This volume brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries. The starting point was a collaborative research meeting  organised by Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars in June 2017. The volume highlights the difficulties and the possibilities that lie in working together across disciplines with the aim of achieving corporate sustainability. The volume is written from the perspective of women business scholars, thereby offering outside viewpoints in fields that still are very much dominated by men, and fresh insights and innovate ideas. In three main parts, the authors address the need for interdisciplinarity in research to identify ways to ensure the contribution of business to sustainability, showcasing  a number of theoretical and applied approaches for researching sustainable business. 

The volume 's introductory chapter situates the volume in discourses of sustainability and corporate sustainability. It presents the Daughters of Themis Network and provides a short description of the successive eleven chapters.  In Part I, Reflections, contributors discuss the significance of interdisciplinary research, how to work across disciplines, as well as the challenges of doing so. In Part II, Theory, contributors discuss theoretical and methodological aspects of interdisciplinary research. Part III presents the Practice of interdisciplinary research. In the introductory chapter, the editors reflect on the insights that can be drawn out of the contributions, and discuss the potential for future developments of interdisciplinary research for sustainability, as well as how interdisciplinary research can be communicated. The book is intended for business scholars, and will particularly appeal to those working in law, accountancy and finance, management, and organization studies. 

Dr. Beate SjÃ¥fjell is a Professor in the Faculty of law at the University of Oslo and a visiting professor at College of Europe, European Legal Studies Department. She is founder and head of the Oslo Law Faculty's research group Companies, Markets and Sustainability. She also coordinates international projects and networks,  including the EU-funded interdisciplinary project Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART, 2016-2020) and  Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars. She publishes extensively in the field of corporate law, corporate governance and sustainability.

Dr. Roseanne Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School (UK) where she researches labour law, corporate governance and feminist legal theory. Her work to date has focussed on the representation, treatment and progression of women in the corporate workplace. Prior to joining academia, Roseanne was a solicitor specialising in employment law.

Dr. Maja van der Velden is a Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research is focused on the design and impact of digital technologies, in particular the interaction of technologies with societies and planet, with sustainability, digitalisation, and just transitions as special interests. She leads the Regenerative Technologies research group and founded the Sustainability Lab. Prior to joining the University, Maja worked for a number of years advising civil society organisations on the adaptation of information and communications technology, in particular in contexts of economic development and social change.